Projects

We support our customers in the implementation of the afb Credit Management Solution (afb-CMS) by seamless integration into existing IT environments. We realise that by the means of specifically designed process, business and IT consulting projects. Customers can use the components of the afb-CMS to create a complete end-to-end system, or select individual system modules and adapt them to their needs. Available specifications and proven processes speed up the requirements elicitation. This results in enormous advantages in terms of time and cost, as well as manageable project time frames – substantially reducing internal project expenses at the bank or leasing company. We offer our customers professional project management, thus ensuring the achievement for defined project objectives. To accomplish this, we capitalise on effective procedures and international best practices in our Project Management, Service Management, Requirements Engineering, Software Development and Test Management. Over the course of more than two decades, we have successfully implemented numerous projects for both national and international financial service providers.

Services projects

Programme management integration

Competent project management

Subdivision of projects into management phases, such as preparation, initialisation, design and transition, and into technical stages from scoping and analysis via design, implementation and testing, through to deployment and early live support

Planning, control and monitoring of scope, changes, progress, time, cost, quality, risks, and benefits

Project steering and quality assurance by applying internationally recognised best practices, such as the project management method PRINCE2 (Projects In Controlled Environments), as well as PMBOK (Project Management Body of Knowledge) as a project management standard

Precise requirements through requirements engineering

Excecution of an effective requirements engineering process in accordance with best practices of the International Requirements Engineering Board (IREB)

Determination of the system context as well as elicitation, documentation (requirements and specifications) and validation of requirement artefacts, such as objectives, scenarios (business and system use cases), and requirements using BPMN and UML

Defining the scope of services (scoping), analysis of requirements (analysis), definition and specification of the afb-CMS (design)

Agile software development

Modern agile software development using the Java Enterprise Edition Platform (JEE)

Customisation, integration and migration of the afb-CMS in the project design, implementation and testing phases

afb supports the customisation degree that customers require, from a buy-approach, through a mix-approach to a make-approach

The integration into highly complex IT environments is optimised by the use of an integration layer provided either by afb or the customer

Migrations remain one of the great challenges in IT. afb solves this by using state-of-the-art tools for application integration, data integration, master data management, and based on its extensive experience

Quality through test management

Quality assurance is carried out through a test management process in accordance with the International Software Testing Qualifications Board (ISTQB)

The functional and qualitative requirements for the software are tested at all test levels, from component testing to system testing

The integration of the system is checked by System Integration Testing (SIT) and approval takes place through the Service Acceptance Test (SAT)

Added value through support services

Assumption of administrative activities, such as partner administration, as well as maintenance of forms, object data and product data

Training and coaching of the various user groups for optimal use of the afb-CMS

IT service management according to best practices

Provision of service management in accordance with the best practices of the IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL)

On-demand supply of infrastructure for operation of the afb-CMS in high-security data centres

Deployment and productive operation of the afb-CMS and monitoring after deployment (Early Life Support)

'The expert team from afb has fully analysed each process using standard and specially developed methods. We were very impressed by the implemented approach and the resulting transparency regarding the optimisation potentials'.Head of IT of the automotive bank